Household Support Fund - Building Firmer Foundations. Are you struggling with your personal finances or concerned about the cost of living? Joining this workshop can help you:

Identify and overcome your barriers
Receive some tips that will help you make your money go further, reduce costs, and leave you feeling more hopeful
Learn how financial difficulties can impact our wellbeing

For any additional support, help with the form etc please contact - financialwellbeing@staffordshire.gov.uk

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Can you catch a Gingerbread person? Visit town centre shops this Christmas and find out.

Cheadle Pensioners have a trip to Worcester Christmas Fayre and have a few spare places. Price £15 leaving from long stay car park at 8:30am and returning at 4:30pm, anyone interested please contact Neil Plant on 01538 752005

Join us for the Family Halloween Party, from 6 PM until late, this event is full of spooky games, a family costume competition, and plenty of music. Tickets can be purchased in advance, and all the details are available on our Facebook page.

The Lantern Parade will be a fantastic finale to the Arts Festival 2024 Programme of events. The community have been busy making lanterns at our workshops to make a stunning visual display. Spark Drummers have been booked.

The route of the parade will be published soon.

This is event is being funded and delivered in collaboration with Outside and is Free to attend

If you are planning to visit the lantern parade and the CATS Theatre Production, the Parade finishes at the Guild Hall in time for the production. Giving a true light and dark experience.

Classic Murder Mystery evening – can you guess Whodunnit? Written and performed by U3A Drama Group. Bar open. Tickets include Pie & Pea supper. A fun Friday night awaits.

Three one act plays. Tea and coffee included. Bar open to purchase other refreshments and alcoholic drinks.

Join us for Tea & Toast. Our local GP mental health team will be attending to discuss your mental health or that of someone you are concerned about.

Would you like to discuss something with the COG team? You can book a one to one, face to face or zoom meeting.

Rev Julie Hassall
Please bring a NEW UNUSED toy/gift unwrapped and
they will be donated to the Children and their mums at the local Refuge

In the Schoolroom - Everyone Welcome.

Sunday 10th November:
1pm Parade Assemble Tape Street Car Park
1.30pm the Parade depart to Church
2pm Church Service at St Giles the Abbot
3pm approx the Procession to
The War Memorial on Tean Road
Recreation Ground for Wreath Laying

Monday 11th November
10.45am St Giles the Abbot-
Roll of Honour Name Reading
11am Two minutes Silence

Create your own butterfly effect: citizens and environmental statistics
Join the ONS and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) on at for an introduction to environmental statistics – from measuring air quality, recycling, and climate change concern, to learning how you can play a part by taking part in citizen science, like the Big Butterfly Count.

It’s more important than ever to understand what’s happening to our natural world. By collecting and analysing lots of data, we can closely monitor the changes that are happening to the environment and create statistics that make a difference – and you can play a part in this too.

This online event for beginners is free to join with plenty of opportunities to get involved and ask questions through Slido. Please share this event with friends, family, or colleagues. We look forward to seeing you on the call!

Sale of Preloved Items – Please come and take a look and feel free to donate anything you may have that you no longer use. Refreshments Available

All funds raised will go towards the Wellspring Refurbishment Fund.

A double bill of two classic short horror stories presented in the format of radio plays.
The Monkey’s Paw is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs which tells of the supernatural powers of a mummified monkey’s paw which can grant three wishes to those that possess it. But…… beware of the hellish consequences as punishment for tampering with fate!

The Signal-Man is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens which tells the tale of a railway signalman haunted by a spectre and who receives phantom warnings of danger each of which is followed by a terrible accident.

Comedy Night
Last year was a sell out success. The venue, the acts, the food, the atmosphere were perfect. Don't miss out this year! Pie & pea supper see menu. Bar. Compere and 3 up and coming acts. Headline Act - David Eagle David was awarded the New Act Of The Year prize at 2018’s

Cheadle Air Ministry & Y Station
Speaker: Local knowledgeable and engaging historian, Philip Brough.

Membership: £7.00 for 11 meetings.
Guest £1.00 per meeting.

Parking:
Free parking on the Tape St car park a few yards away.
Please note: all meetings are on the third Thursday of the month.

Find out the plans for the restoration of Wellspring and new development. This is a fundraising event for the project, please support us if you can.

Tickets are required for Afternoon Tea - Please
Contact Glenys
753568 / 07895 090369

Find out the latest COG activities, share your organisational updates and meet other members. Members will recieve an email invitation each month

Churches Together in Cheadle

A pantomime by Rob Adamson. Tickets on sale from 1st December, online or Kenrals

Look out for the Gingerbread Man Shop Trail, live music & reindeer. Enjoy festive food and treats whilst you shop. Kids will love the traditional rides and Santa’s Grotto, with Snow White, Tinker Bell, Spider-man and Stitch already invited, be sure to join them all on the day. Lights switch on 5pm.

Please note this is a change of venue from our usual meetings.

Beverley Artis from Derby is our demonstrator with a presentation entitled ‘Step into Christmas’.

Tickets are priced at £10 including refreshments for what will be a truly amazing and memorable evening to get everyone in the mood for Christmas.

Please do not hesitate to contact chairman Sheila Jones 07974577572 (text) for any further information or tickets. Everyone can be assured of a warm and friendly welcome.

Theme: Light & Dark
Categories:11 to 18 age group
Adult 19+ years
Judging: All photographs will be displayed and judged by the public on 19th October.

Entry: One entry per person and entry is free of charge. Please bring your photographs to the Guild Hall on 19th October between 9:30am – 11:30am and collect them between 4pm and 5pm (or leave us a SAE if you cannot collect).

Prizes will be awarded in both age categories. Prizes will be vouchers to spend in participating Cheadle retailers.

See the website for full details

Moorland Voices and various solo artists and musicians will perform at St Giles Abbott parish church.

An afternoon of performances including: Cheadle Community Choir, Uke3A - Ukulele bank, U3A band, and Amy Lou Dancers. Refreshments and cakes will be available to enjoy during the performances. Performers will be running 15 - 20 minute sets during the course of the afternoon. Come and stay as long as you like.
Free Performance

The first event - Special Service for Clock and Bells, followed by a Vintage Bear Exhibition, and a bring your own picnic. Please attend if you can and support this historic piece of Cheadle Life.

Come along to our regular COG meeting where we'll be joined by the NHS to discover how best to connect with urgent and emergency care.

COG will be launching our Plastic Free Community Program & you can find out more about Nature in Your Neighbourhood and what the changes to the Governments housebuilding plans could mean for the town.

Wellspring will be revealing their exciting plans for new indoor and outdoor community spaces for Cheadle.

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Are you retired or approaching retirement? Want to know what help is available? Come along and talk with helpful local organisations.

Music & Readings for the Festive Season with Young Phoenix

Don’t miss out on our popular Halloween Trail. This is a wonderful way to get involved in the spooky season while helping to keep the community fun and safe. Decorate your home and join the trail or simply enjoy walking through the village to see all the spooky displays. The cut-off date for entries is 25th October, so be sure to enter soon. Participants will also be able to vote for their favourite decorated house. For more details, visit our Facebook page.

CATS drama double horror
A double bill of two classic short horror stories presented in the format of radio plays.
The Monkey’s Paw is a horror short story by English author W. W. Jacobs which tells of the supernatural powers of a mummified monkey’s paw which can grant three wishes to those that possess it. But…… beware of the hellish consequences as punishment for tampering with fate!
The Signal-Man is a horror mystery story by Charles Dickens which tells the tale of a railway signalman haunted by a spectre and who receives phantom warnings of danger each of which is followed by a terrible accident.

If you are planning to visit the lantern parade and the CATS Theatre Production, the Parade finishes at the Guild Hall in time for the production. Giving a true light and dark experience.

~ Cheadle Market is hosting an Arts, Crafts and & Artisans Market.
~ Artists showcase & exhibition is set up in Guild Hall – one day only.
~Public judging of the Photographic Competition is taking place in the Oakley Room at the Guild Hall. Get your photo entries in first thing in the morning then come during the day and choose your favourites to win.
~There will be entertainers around town, including Morris Dancers.

Please note: applications are open to take a market stall or exhibition space please contact us via the website. Artists wishing to display their work should contact the oganiser asap.

Urban Sketchers is a global community of artists. We share our love for the places where we live and travel - one drawing at a time. The USK mission is to raise the artistic, storytelling, and educational value of on-location drawing. Cheadle Arts is delighted to welcome back the Stoke-on-Trent USK group
Free

Meet the police officers, dogs, volunteers and emergency responders working hard to keep them safe each and every day across the county. Lots in store for everyone in the family to enjoy and entry is completely free.

If there’s any young aspiring police officers in the making in your family, they’ll be able to sit in a police car or on a motorbike, talk to the officers serving in their neighbourhoods and speak to the specialist teams about what they do each day to protect the public. Our brave police dogs will also be there alongside their specially-trained handlers, including demonstrations on live incident scenarios, drills from our police cadets, arena performances, children’s activities and, of course, food and drink stalls.

Parking isn’t available on site, so we have arranged a park and ride service, costing £3, that can be purchased in advance of the event for families wanting to leave their vehicles at the Staffordshire County Showground. A double-decker bus will be running all day to bring visitors to and from each site.

To book your park and ride ticket in advance, visit: Staffordshire Police Open Day for all the family - Park and Ride Tickets, Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite

Social Events & Trips